Word: knock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leviathan Levy wears a tire tube for a belt. Off his feet, he requires four men to stand him up again. Opponents find him formidable be cause he is too big to hold, too slippery to twist, too heavy to lift. Leviathan Levy's only trick is to knock down an adversary with a blow of his paunch, then lie down on top of him. Currently trying to impair his appearance further by growing a beard, Leviathan Levy hopes next month to "wrestle" Man Mountain Dean (TIME...
...bettering conditions go, Mr. Hull's statistics knock the props from his contention that the treaties revived world trade, admitting that only $13,000,000 worth of last years increase is due directly to the agreements...
...past, however, the Purple has been a fairly easy aggregation to knock off, and no untoward difficulty is expected Monday. Last year the meet had a strong Crimson tingo with the runners from Mt. St. James collecting only the second and fourth spots in the first...
...world, Ettore and Louis crawled into a ring in the Municipal Stadium. The fight, which drew a crowd of 50,000, lasted five lively rounds. In the first, two rights put Ettore down for a short count. In the second and third, Ettore, who had promised to knock Louis into the 15th row, courageously belabored his opponent's ribs, caused the expression of pained bewilderment that Louis wore throughout the Schmeling fight to cross his face again. In the fourth, a Louis right produced another knockdown. Still dizzy, Ettore went down again in the fifth. When the referee counted...
...Matisse. He's getting on in years, you know, and everyone thought he had shot his bolt in art. He's 67 or 68 years old and he hadn't shown anything in two years. But this year he had a show in Paris that would knock your...